I'm Trying. I'm Trying? I'm Trying! I'm Trying...: A Collection of Poems

By Elizabeth Hollinger

In this book you can experience exactly what the writer felt in each poem she leads you through the pivotal points of her life. You will applaud her growth through resiliency and ability to stay strong in each difficult season. Her faith that things will get better if she keeps trying is a lovely sentiment that resonates throughout this book. Elizabeth Hollinger takes us on a journey of ups and downs, she masterfully compels us to turn the next page until we are at the end of her book. Not only is this a coming-of-age story it is a story of coming face to face with the hardest things and continuing to move forward. Her message of “I’m Trying...” reaches the very core of what we all consist of, continuing our own story. We can certainly hope that means we will be reading another book from her soon.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
• Release date: Feb 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781489733184

Elizabeth Hollinger

This authors collection of work is violently moving she has been collecting her poems for ten years composing this masterpiece. For Elizabeth it has always been about sharing her work, learning as well as growing along the way. She is proudest of being published in her hometown’s college paper, being a Top Pick from the Lettrs website. She also helped organize a writer’s groups at her local library where people from all genres of writing are encouraged to come and receive feedback. She writes with a raw truth about her struggles in life, people crave to know they are not alone and this book shouts that message in every sentence. In each of her poems we get a glimpse into a real world that we can all relate too; she paints her pain in vivid imagery and expresses her joy in finding who she is.

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I’m Trying.

I’m Trying?

I’m Trying!

I’m Trying....

A Collection of Poems

ELIZABETH HOLLINGER

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Copyright © 2021 Elizabeth Hollinger.

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ISBN: 978-1-4897-3319-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4897-3318-4 (e)

LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 01/27/2021

TRIGGER WARNING

This book contains descriptions of depression,

eating disorders, loss, self-harm, suicidal intention,

physical abuse and sexual assault.

Please consider your mental well-being before reading.

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Dedicated

to all the people who inspired these words. Whether the impression you left was positive or negative it brought these words out of me and onto these pages. I will be forever grateful to the person I became. With every trial, season or storm a poem brought me through to the other side.

Also, to you dear reader I am thankful for every trial I faced. If I can help you then I would do it all over again. These words are as much for me as they are for you.

Remember you are never alone.

Contents

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•   To You

•   Beautiful Disease

•   Pictures Laughing

•   Folklore, Magic & Mead

•   Bleeding Ink

•   Lovely Smile

•   Yellow

•   Safe Harbor

•   Chained in Wires

•   L’appel du Vide

•   90’s Pain

•   Cello Love

•   Beautiful when Betrayed

•   Daisy

•   Lipstick Lies

•   Missing Hate

•   Languages of Love

•   Impressionist Art

•   Smiling Graves

•   Shadow Lights

•   I’m Trying

•   False Kings

•   Feathers

•   Masterpiece of Skin

•   Foolish Things

•   I Gave My Soul

•   Summer

•   A Letter to My Loneliness

•   Imposter

•   Acceptance

•   Your Skin Lingers

•   As All Things

•   Rain Fills My Soul

•   My Body Becomes Poetry

•   Parabatai

•   Sweet Love

•   Words

•   Sanctuary Sins

•   Tears of Ash

•   Trauma Bond

•   Little Fingers

•   Set her Free

•   Divorced

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